Bipolar Disorder and Your Body Clock
Since I was officially diagnosed with bipolar disorder earlier this year, research about it always catches my eye. And because I often struggle to fall asleep and stay asleep, I’m interested in information about my internal clock, as well.
New findings from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, TX, pack a one-two punch with evidence that bipolar mania may be tied to a mutated gene that controls the body clock.
According to the researchers, manic mice with mutated CLOCK genes began acting like non-mutated mice after being treated with lithium, a drug frequently prescribed to bipolar patients as a mood stabilizer.
What this means for bipolar people is still up in the air, and research is ongoing.
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2 opinions for Bipolar Disorder and Your Body Clock
Barin Mehta
Mar 31, 2007 at 5:13 am
I think this issue could be treated by Reiki Natural Healing Systen!
Reiki is a healing energy, works on disordered created by the persons or situation or circumstences!
I am highly reccomanding that these kind of cases should have an oportunity by medical science and doctors also that they could be guided for that! Thes is the time for real science and paranormal science has to come togather for the purpose of new kind of evolution is coming up!
Rebecca Beasley
Apr 7, 2007 at 7:54 pm
I took lithobid for years, and it was very good for stabalizing my moods. I no longer was suspicious of my husband and was able to live normal for a long time, but then I was also having problems with my weight and had lengthy periods and pms sysmtoms, as well as severe fibromyalgia and endometriosis. A complete hyesterectomy was done when I was 35 since I could no longer take birth control and keep smoking. (I still smoke..slap me) but I no longer have the problems that having female organs caused me and I’m much more stable on different meds.
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